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[ 10 *SfVaL Sostal fates will continue to climb. small town post offices will be out of business, and users will continue to be nickeled and dimed to death because thevy send oversized birthday cards, or feel compelled to send change of address cards when they move I would be pleased to say "hurrah" i. turn over . tive gover the same t during th. ‘uring the next five NVeSLMEONIS to made Two weeks piece of Cana into my mail are improvin People like nothing better than to swing punches at the government and unions. So. taking swipes at Canada Post is a natural considering its mulato makeâ€"up, Read the letters in any newspaper; ten Aadoeeeneaal mm hat s great P Letters hildcare and ;p, [3 / TT Y Fauline Hodgkiss regarding childcare and the Ontario Coalition for Better Childcare (une 14), This group does not include all forms of childcare in their discussion or policies. The Ontario Coalition for Better Childcare is demanding financial assistance when both parents are working outside the home and using daycare centres. They exclude families who choose to care for their own children and families who use friends, relatives or neighbors for childcare. The Canadian Daycare Advocacy Association is promoting a daycare plan that is 85 per cent government funded and 15 per cent user funded. Oneâ€"income families who choose to care for their own preschool children should not be required to support, through taxes, twoâ€"income families who choose to use daycare centres. If government finances are to be designated for childcare, the money should be allotted equally to all preschool! children regardless of the childcare option the parents have chosen. The lobbying of daycare advocates ig narrow and selfserv. ing. Discussions on childcare should include all forms of childcare and be based on a fair financial system. Opinion Childcare discussions should consider all alternatives am writing me live years in capital modernize plants and d to say "hurrah" for Post office may go way of the dinosaur OA22 °0 Lhe Conserva or general use and at 5 billion will be spent Os in response to the letter by Pauline Hodgkiss Ideare and the fmi.i. m * eene Ot_igk For example, recent i to think there is no one that huge edifice: no initative. First, I receiv ing turning a profit is Justification (and a bargaining chip) for higher wages, betâ€" ter pensions for unionized workers and management. Somebody‘s got to be rewarded for their work â€" and certainly the public will never be recognized for its loyality, sticking by a dinosaur of an industry. A dinosaur? Yes. Old, awkward and clumsy, not too bright, and virtually obsolete. For some dinosaurs their savâ€" Ing grace was evolution, but it may be too late for the post office to evolve into . something that will give it new meanâ€" nc the post office if it weren‘t for some nagging doubts. I don‘t mind the profit as long as I feel I‘m getting a service worth paying for. And sometimes, too often, it‘s questionable. The post office is making a profit on my profit, yet I‘m getting nothing in return. Margaret Visser Waterloo is no one thinking inside m 1 fice; no one with any . Lreceived a calling card Comment Isobel Lawson jncx’depts lead me ly. (bya 20 2C TCy "9i7 viGet. It‘s the old case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing â€" and more. How the post office‘s ineptâ€" ness effects others never seems to play into the equation, Now, if I had been a little old lady sans l‘auto the post office‘s lincompetence would have cost me dearâ€" v _The rudeness a friend . experienced when he went to mail some resumes and was told the envelopes were oversized When I went to the retail post office outlet, which happened to be way across the city from where I lived, the clerk could only apologize, saying it had happened before and she would make note of it. ; The other, more recent, runâ€"in with the post office came when I received anotg:: parcel notice â€" not at the nearby Mr. Grocer store but at an Albert Street mall. Upon presenting the card to the clerk, I was told the parcel wasn‘t at the store. The card was wrong. Someone had sent me the card, but someone else shipped the parcel to another post office. I would have to go to the second location to get the parcel. That it didn‘t matter how much I was inconvem’en)ced was made very clear, Mairl i 0 NO MSSe Te telling me it was my thir notice to pick up a parce wondering who got my first notices. my third and final parcel. I began and second It‘s at times like this I think the post office may have a chance over the dinosaurs. Even that smallest flicker of thinking may mean its survival. But it‘s questionable. om and required more postage makes me think there are a lot of problems out there. How big is oversized, he asked. This big, she responded, gesturing with her hands. How big is this big, he returned. The belligerent response was too much; he left stlfil not knowing what size was oversized.